Below is an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’ 1845 book, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, about his slave mother.      That one excerpt    has more power to unmask the incredible, RELENTLESS, unrelenting, targeted    cruelty of American Slavery, than anything the films, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, or DJANGO UNCHAINED    or anything, angry, at her white mother, Nikole Hannah-Jones can conjure up.     There is a consensus that Frederick’s father was a white man; his name is lost to History.     Frederick Douglass was his nom de guerre; his official name was    Frederick Bailey. No one knows if Bailey was the name of his true white father, or the name of another white person, or a slave.     This Blogger does not know why he took a new surname. This Blogger assumes there was a Douglass who had been kind to him.     His real mother had died when he was young ( see excerpt),    and, as a slave,    he was given to one of those conflicted Southern slaveholding families in Maryland.     Con

Periodically this Blogger is guilty of slipping into a Graham Greene Lite mode, and discussing the Psychology of God. The last time this Blogger did that was his 2015 Christmas Message:   A Christmas Message about Absurdity Saving Mankind from Derangement......... http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-christmas-message-about-absurdity.html . In that devout Christmas message, this Blogger proclaimed that God was deranged, and that " THE BIBLE is the Psychology of God as told to Mankind by God.” Surprisingly the Message brought a number of remarkably kind and inquisitive emails from divinity students concerning its contents and conclusions. They all desired further Graham Greene Lite insight into the Psychology of God. This Blogger hesitated, because: How much more Graham Greene Lite can one get after one writes that God is deranged? Then this Blogger watched a PBS television program about the assassination of James Garfield, America’s 20 th Pres